Esquire13 hours agoLake Mead Could Soon Be a 'Dead Pool.' It's Already a Pool of the Dead.verified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceThe reservoir, which provides water to huge swathes of the American West, is drying up. As democracy grows more desiccated in Washington, elsewhere in the country, where those crafty Chinese climate hoaxsters continue to ply their shenanigans, the talk of something dying of thirst is far less …
Esquire11 hours agoIf At First You Don't Succeed, Find a Conservative Judge Who Will Decide You Succeededverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceA prayerful football coach finds victory after a number of mulligans. Somehow, on Monday, the Supreme Court resisted the temptation to teach us that the Environmental Protection Agency is unconstitutional because a lot of people in Philadelphia got cholera from bad water back in 1789. (The nightmare …
Esquire11 hours agoI Am a Trans Man. I Had an Abortion. Reproductive Rights Is Everyone's Fight.verified_publisherEsquire - Cazembe Murphy JacksonDon’t allow them to scare us into silence. Here's how we fight back. Right now. Today. All of us. My abortion story, like many others, is one centered around courage and bravery. I am a Black, Southern, non-binary trans man. I was born and raised in Texas and currently live in Georgia. When I was a …
Esquire1 day agoGriswold Is Not About 'Contraception.' It's About the Right to Privacy.verified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceIf the Supreme Court sets its sights on Griswold v. Connecticut, they won't just target pills or rubbers. They'd destroy a fundamental constitutional right under the Ninth Amendment. On February 24, 1761, a Boston lawyer named James Otis really went to town. He had been engaged by some Boston …
Esquire2 days agoNow Roe. What's Next?verified_publisherEsquire - David LatI believe the fears that the Supreme Court poses a threat to other rights are overblown. (Though I've been wrong before.) Understanding why requires going beyond the usual talking points and digging into doctrine. On Friday, as you may have heard, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson …
Esquire2 days agoSocial Media Floods With Dismay Over Roe v. Wade Getting Overturnedverified_publisherEsquire - Lexi CarsonFrom Dave Portnoy's emergency press conference to Andy Cohen's stark lament. History is now set back 50 years. Maybe worse. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, writing that there is no constitutional right to abortion and that the authority over access to such …
